I am the commissioner of a H2H league. We have had 12 teams for the last 10 years. However, this year we had an owner drop out and I have been unable to replace him. Does anyone have any ideas on running a H2H with eleven teams? I really do not want to give a bye each week. Any help will be appreciated

You need to have an even number of teams. If it is an online league, you should not have a problem finding a twelth member. If it is a local league, you still have plenty of time to find someone. The league just won't work with an odd number of teams.

Use the classifieds here or see if another owner can vouch for a friend that would be a good fit.

If that all fails, you can either take one volunteer to take a year off. If you do that and this is a keeper league... he should still be allowed to trade and make transactions for his team... Give him the opportunity to build up his team for 2012.

If that isn't something that'll work for you or it's not a keeper league it's probably time to contract a team out.

As the commissioner for a H2H keeper league, it's important to have an even number of teams and to keep your teams in the same divisions from year to year. H2H leagues begin to take on a different dimension if rivalries are developed. It means keeping stats from year-to-year, but it's worth the extra time. Click on the website in my profile and you can see what i mean.

You DO NOT have to have an even number of teams to run a league in a head to head format. If you run through CBS or any server that allows multiple games per scoring period, you can customize a league schedule so that some teams play 2 games in the week while everyone plays at least 1 game. Example:

1 v 23 v 45 v 67 v 89 v 1011 v 12 v 3

etc, etc

In this case, youd have 7 games in a week so 3 teams would play two games (teams 1, 2 & 3) and the rest are playing 1. The next week you schedule it so 3 different teams are playing 2 games. This eliminates the need for a bye week.... this of course if you can't find a replacement. The point is, you CAN do it. Writing those kinds of schedules can be tricky, but it can be done.